#stoiclife

Relax, Let Go

If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. —Edith Wharton

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —Buddha

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

The root of suffering is attachment. —Buddha

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man. —Alan Paton

Expectation is the only seed of disappointment. —Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. —Ed Miliband

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. —Kahlil Gibran